It’s interesting how if you give a fool enough rope he will eventually hang himself. Madison Cawthorn has felt very safe in being Mr. Big Mouth of the MAGA fringe because he ran from a very safe district to begin with and then the legislature gifted him — he thought — with an even safer district to run in, where he would be bullet proof.
Unfortunately, congressional districts are ephemeral things. They can appear or disappear with the stroke of a pen and that’s what happened to Cawthorn’s. Now the thorny problem with that, is that when the new district disappeared that left Cawthorn with no choice other than to go back to his old district, hat in hand, and declare that he would run from there. Alas for Cawthorn, the person he had encouraged to run in his place decided she’s not going anywhere. And since Cawthorn made it abundantly clear that his issue is not representing the people of his district, but merely staying in Congress, no matter from where, his prospects are looking, shall we say, as dim as his intellect? Daily Beast:
After spending months campaigning in another district—and supporting [Michele] Woodhouse—a state court undid the lines that prompted Cawthorn to make his big play, and the district he had moved to vanished in an instant.
That forced Cawthorn to backtrack and run in his original district, in an attempt to reverse the game of political musical chairs he had kicked off.
This time, he made no call to Woodhouse. But plenty of others did. They urged her to continue her campaign—even if her primary opponent was now Cawthorn himself.
“When he decided to come back in, my phone blew up with calls—from within the district, across North Carolina, elected officials from D.C.—saying, ‘You have to stay in the race,’” Woodhouse said.
If it weren’t for forsaking his district, even with all of his controversies and embarrassments, Cawthorn could likely have coasted through election season just fine. But if the congressman’s opponents can effectively capitalize on his district-switching screw-up, it could provide the missing ingredient for defeating him in a GOP primary.
Cawthorn is brand new to politics and he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer to begin with. If he was more seasoned he would have realized that his gerrymandered perfect district might be a mirage, and he wouldn’t have run for it so quickly. Now he’s in the position of recrossing bridges that, if not burnt, have certainly sustained structural damage due to his actions and things in his former district are not the way they were.
Cawthorn may have just screwed himself. I think it’s safe to say that he’s on the short list of MAGA fringe performance artists whose defeat is most desired this fall, along with Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Cawthorn may not even make it to the fall. He may very well be benched by his own party, due to his own stupidity. Wouldn’t that be sweet poetic justice?
With all the manure flinging from Cruz and friends at Judge MS. Jackson’s history, these days are looking up since somebody must have accidentally pushed the self-destruct button on the GOP shit-head list …
Anybody supporting these weak minded, waste-of-time, morons will get what they deserve and it won’t be a pretty picture for anyone else …
I’m actually very ready to start the pop corn cooking, something HAS to happen to Putin and his freaking killing spree in the Ukraine, given the right tools, the Ukrainian troops and citizens are showing extreme courage and successful attacks on the Russian troops … With a LOT of luck, perhaps the Russian People, along with military holding him back from the Nukes we can avoid the WWIII fiasco …
I have to say it would be a delicious irony if Cawthorne got knocked out in the primary – by his handpicked successor. Let’s talk about that “handpicked” part. If KKKawthorn insists on duking it out with her in the primary it could get ugly and mutually damaging to whomever wins the nomination. But even if she is the one who wins, and even if KKKawthorn doesn’t wound her too badly a good Democratic candidate will have a theme to run on – that SHE is the person he chose to take over “representing” the District for him. Why? She might not run around talking as crazy as him but he’d have never chosen her unless he truly believed she was a political soul mate. That might be just enough of an opening for a Democrat (not the kind we’d like I admit) to eke out a win. And who knows? KKKawthorne is bat-shit crazy enough that if he doesn’t win the primary he will run as an independent, especially if Trump decides to endorse him and THAT my friends isn’t a bat-shit crazy prospect!
See also Lauren Boebert, who just got her Colorado district wiped from existence by her far more liberal state government.
Those bridges aren’t burnt yet, they’re still burning.
Irony may be dead to humans … bur, clerly, Karma is still in contact .